Friday, August 13, 2010

Add ogg support to iTunes on Mac OS X

iTunes for Mac: this was harder to find than I thought.Not hard, just not trivial; this should be a one-click add-capability type action,but the instructions were not as clear. (Ideally, iTunes would already have support for open formats.)

Quit iTunes

Download XiphQT QuickTime component.This is a small 1M .dmg; double click to open it. You'll see some text files, but most importantlyXiphQT.component

Copy it in to /Library/QuickTime

[Optional] This is only necessary if you want to double-click an .ogg file and have it open in iTunes. You can still use the 'add to library' menu item or drag files from the Finder on to iTunes. I think.Edit the info.plist file inside of iTunes;see instructions here: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Using_iTunes/Ogg_in_iTunes

Go to dir.xiph.org and try an ogg stream.Start up iTunes and play. I did this on 10.6.4.

2 comments:

if you also want to put .ogg to ipod,iphone,ipad, then you need to convert .ogg to itunes/ipod/iphone/ipad compatible format with the following step by step guide at http://www.bigasoft.com/articles/put-ogg-to-itunes-to-play-ogg-in-itunes.html

the following is a detailed guide on how to free download xiph quicktime components and how to convert ogg to ipod compatible format

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